The Golf Industry is in a vulnerable position regarding pest control products.

Both the Golf Industry and the Modern Professional Lawn Care Industry use the same ingredients that are needed to control insect and weed pests.

In fact, Professional Lawn Care maintenance requires less pesticide–inputs than Golf Course turf.

The Golf Industry enjoys the benefits from a Prohibition Exception Status despite the fact that it uses the very same ingredients employed in Professional Lawn Care maintenance.

The HATED Golf Industry is now an easy target.

Enviro–Maniac–Activists are already alleging that the so–called threat to health and environment posed by Professional Lawn Care is equal or higher on the golf course, especially with women and juniors.

Of course, this alleged threat is a myth !

If it is safe to walk and play on a pesticide–treated golf course putting green, it is also safe to walk on a pesticide–treated lawn.

The Golf Industry has defended its exception status on the basis that the need for high–quality playing conditions supersedes cosmetic standards, especially if Integrated Pest Management ( I.P.M. ) is used.

The Professional Lawn Care Industry also used I.P.M. as a public affairs tool, and failed to defend itself from prohibitionist policies.

Additionally, Integrated Pest Management has been designed to be applicable to the Agriculture Industry, and NOT the Green Space Industry.

Integrated Pest Management is a FAILED STRATEGY !

Unfortunately, some provincial and municipal governments will not provide an exception status to the Golf Industry !

... and this is just the beginning !

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According to some jurisdictionsPESTICIDE–TREATED GOLF COURSE TURFis as unsafe for health and the environment asPESTICIDE–TREATED–LAWNS !

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In Revelstoke, British Columbia ...

NO ProhibitionExceptionfor Golf !

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Environment Committee Pushing Pesticide Ban

February 22nd, 2010

Alex Cooper

Revelstoke Times Review

« Give it [ prohibition ] a time frame for people to comply. Everybody’s going to cry, maybe extend the deadline if it’s not working but get it started anyway. There should be a phase in, especially to help the city-owned Revelstoke Golf Club. »

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In the Province of Prince Edward Island ...

NO ProhibitionExceptionfor Golf !

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Pesticide Legislation Will Go To Free Vote

December 2nd, 2009

CBC News

Prince Edward Island ( P.E.I. )

« We’re allowing ( 2,4–D ) on golf courses because it's a major industry for P.E.I. and we're working towards getting off it. What we’re basically saying is you [ the Golf Industry ] better find a way to get off it over the next couple of years. »

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The leadingEnvironmentalTerror Organizationsare demanding ...

NO ProhibitionExceptionfor Golf !

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● Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment ( C.A.P.E. )

● Canadian Cancer Society ( C.C.S. )

● Canadian Coalition for Health and Environment ( C.C.H.E. )

● Canadian Environmental Law Association ( C.E.L.A. )

● David Suzuki Foundation

● Green Party of Ontario

● New Democratic Party of Ontario ( N.D.P. )

● Pesticide Free Ontario ( P.F.O. )

● Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario ( R.N.A.O. )

● Sierra Club of Canada

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THE GOLF INDUSTRY MUSTIMMEDIATELY ADDRESSSIXTEEN CRITICAL ISSUES

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WARNING : Regardless of its Exception Status in many jurisdictions, the Golf Industry faces some huge challenges because of its high degree of vulnerability concerning several public affairs issues.

In order to successfully deter the malicious efforts of all Enviro–Maniac–Activists, the Golf Industry must immediately address the following sixteen critical issues.

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1. The Golf Industry must cease focusing on the ineffective integrated pest management ( I.P.M. ) strategies as the solution to its public affairs problems.

Unfortunately, I.P.M. has been designed to be applicable to the Agriculture Industry, and NOT the Golf Industry.

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2. The Golf Industry must publicly divulge to the public all scientific information that ascertains that its chemicals are definitely « minimum–risk » or « reduced–risk ».

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3. The Golf Industry must publicly denounce the so–called green alternatives to conventional pest control products as bogus, and the biological–natural–organic methods, as almost ineffective and non–existent.

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4. The Golf Industry must create a fully transparent database for right–to–know information concerning its chemicals.

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5. The Golf Industry must directly and actively support litigation launched against those enviro–maniac–activists that have conspired to prohibit federally legal, scientifically safe, totally irreplaceable, and absolutely indispensable pest control products, and cease being a mere casual observer.

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6. The Golf Industry must explain why some of its chemicals are prohibited by other nations, but not in Canada, and cease its wasteful « Wag The Dog » policies on irrelevant issues such as saving quintozene.

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Background Information from an Independent Perspective ─

In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency ( E.P.A. ) concluded that the risks when using quintozene were substantial from an environmental standpoint.

The E.P.A. concluded that the re–registration of quintozene was acceptable provided that ALL TURF USES WERE TERMINATED.

In view of the many questions concerning the safety of quintozene, it would seem preferable that the Golf Industry withdraw its petition in support of this ingredient.

Moreover, by defending a product associated with serious health, environ-mental, and turf phyto–toxicity issues, the Golf Industry has weakened its credibility.

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada ( P.M.R.A. ) will follow with the same decision as the E.P.A., by prohibiting the sale of quintozene beyond 2010, and prohibiting the use of quintozene beyond 2011.

The Manufacturing Industry WILL NOT defend quintozene. Furthermore, the Manufacturing Industry will NO LONGER invest in ANY pest control products in Canada, since it abhors operating in markets made UNSTABLE by TERRORISM, whether political or Environmental.

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7. The Golf Industry must vigorously embark on a massive public relations campaign to stop the proposed scheme by Enviro–Maniac–Activists and National Democratic Party of Canada threatening a national prohibition of pest control products.

N.D.P. is the political shield for the Environmental–Terror–Movement.

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8. The Golf Industry must review and justify its current and extensive array of chemicals.

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9. The Golf Industry must plan for the inevitable and total revocation of its exception status in most jurisdictions across Canada, in two to four years.

The Golf Industry will lose many or ALL of its valued and necessary pest control products.

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10. The Golf Industry must provide the public with scientific information supporting the idea that its innovative management practices may slightly reduce the use of pest control products.

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11. The Golf Industry must develop and publish golf maintenance protocols and the performance standards expected by its playing customers. So far, the Golf Industry has been ridiculously inconsistent in defining « suitable playing surfaces ».

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12. The Golf Industry must scientifically define and publically discredit the misleading term « Organic Golf Course », and establish policies for expelling clubs using this inaccurate and misleading term from its trade associations.

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13. The Golf Industry must strongly address and discredit the misconceptions concerning imidacloprid, chlorothalonil, 2,4–D, and other chemicals.

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14. The Golf Industry must terminate all relationships with Environmental–Terror–Organizations like Contemptible–Canadian–Cancer–Society, World Wildlife Fund, and others.

All related charitable tournaments that provide financial donations and support to these Environmental–Terror–Organizations must be suspended and redirected.

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15. The Golf Industry must oppose the loathsome and ridiculous Royal Canadian Golf Association ( R.C.G.A. ) that raises millions of dollars for the Millionaire–Canadian–Cancer–Society, an Environmental–Terror–Organization that uses this money in its conspiracy to prohibit of federally legal, scientifically safe, totally irreplaceable, and absolutely indispensable conventional pest control products.

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16. The Golf Industry must openly and financially support political candidates that oppose any prohibition of pest control products.

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William H. Gathercole and Norah G

National Organization Responding Against Huje that TERRORIZE, HARM, and THREATEN the Green Space Industry (NORAHG)

Force Of Nature presents THE WHOLE TRUTH FROM AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE from National Organization Responding Against Huje that seek to harm the Green Space Industry (NORAHG). It is a series of Reports destined for the Green Space Industry, the Environmental Terror Movement, Governments, and the Media, nationwide across Canada, the United States, and overseas. The information presented in Force Of Nature has been developed for the education and entertainment of the reader by providing a sequence of historical events WITH COMMENTARY. The neutrality of these Reports might be disputed.

Huje is a term used to describe Enviro Maniac Activists that routinely concoct FEAR MONGERING, FRAUDULENT LIES, MISCONCEPTIONS, COERCION, THREATS, DECEPTIONS, TERROR, and PARANOID CONSPIRACIES that are DESIGNED to SCAM and DECEIVE the public into believing that families are in some NON–EXISTENT danger with conventional pest control products. Huje also SCAM and DECEIVE Government Officials into the NEEDLESS, SENSELESS, and MALICIOUS prohibition of FEDERALLY LEGAL, SCIENTIFICALLY SAFE, TOTALLY IRREPLACEABLE, and ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE conventional pest control products.

All information, excerpts, and pictures contained in this Report were found somewhere on the Internet, and may be considered in the public domain, serving one of the following purposes ― archive, education, promotion, publicity, or press release. The events, characters, companies, and organizations, depicted in this Report are not always fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, may not be coincidental. Force Of Nature is TOTALLY INDEPENDENT of any trade association or business operating within the Green Space Industry. Don’t thank us. It’s a public service. And we are glad to do it.

Force Of Nature, and its various incarnations, is the brainchild of William H. Gathercole and his entourage. Mr. Gathercole is a principal FOUNDER of the Modern Professional Lawn Care Industry in BOTH Ontario and Quebec. He holds a degree in Horticulture from the UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, and another pure and applied science degree from McGILL UNIVERSITY. He has worked in virtually all aspects of the Green Space Industry, including GOLF, PROFESSIONAL LAWN CARE, and CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, and has served in public affairs, workplace safety, and environmental compliance. Mr. Gathercole has supervised, consulted, programmed, and/or overseen the successful and safe execution of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of pest control applications in the urban landscape. He has trained, instructed, and consulted with THOUSANDS of turf managers and technicians. Mr. Gathercole has also been an agricultural agronomist. For many years, Mr. Gathercole was a contributing columnist for TURF & Recreation Magazine, Canada’s Turf and Grounds Maintenance Authority. Mr. Gathercole is now retired from Force Of Nature, although his name continues to appear as the FOUNDER. Mr. Gathercole is personally credited for crafting the Golf Industry Exception Status, that endures to this day. He is also the creator of the signs that are now used for posting after application. His vast knowledge of our long journey with Environmental Issues is UNDENIABLE ― hopefully ! For FIFTEEN YEARS, the strategies designed and implemented by Mr. Gathercole and his colleagues guaranteed the control of Environmental Terror for the entire Modern Green Space Industry across Canada. Mr. Gathercole’s involvement in Environmental Issues reached a fevered pitch in the 1990s, when he orchestrated, with his colleagues, legal action against the Forces of Environmental Evil in the Town of Hudson, Quebec. Mr. Gathercole is the ONLY TRUE RELIABLE WITNESS of the Hudson Affair.

Mr. Gathercole and his entourage have followed the evolution of ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISM for over a quarter century. Through Force Of Nature, Enviro Maniac Activist Huje are identified on the basis of their statements, activities, affiliations, and whereabouts. Even though each Enviro Maniac Culprit is a misguided adversary, each still deserves our respect. The use of the terms Maniac, Culprit, Terrorist, or Basterd are not accusations of any legal wrong doing. Force Of Nature is simply holding Enviro Maniac Activists accountable for conspiring to change public policies that TERRORIZE, HARM, and THREATEN the Green Space Industry. Their pretentious prohibitionist rants have created LOSS OF REVENUES, BUSINESS FAILURES, BANKRUPTCY, and UNEMPLOYMENT, inflicting DESPAIR and DESTITUTION for THOUSANDS of hapless victims throughout the Green Space Industry. The DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE of Maniac Culprit Terrorist Basterd Huje is viewed as a form of TERROR, HARM, and THREAT against the Green Space Industry.